[CPEO-MEF] MUNITIONS, PERCHLORATE: Propellant found near El Morro National Monument, NM

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

[This article doesn't say whether the "solid rocket propellant  
materials" found on this property contain perchlorate.= LS]

Foreign items found near ElâMorro

By Donald Jaramillo
Cibola County Beacon (NM)
March 20, 2012

CIBOLA COUNTY - A large property landowner near El Morro National  
Monument found several âforeignâ items in about a 30 ft. radius  
that have been identified by the U.S. Army as solid rocket propellant  
materials.

âWe have not been able to identify the items as ours,â said U.S.  
Army representative from White Sand Missile Range at a public meeting  
at Future Foundations Family Center on Thursday, March 15. The army  
hosted the meeting to inform the public of the findings and its  
remediation.

âThese items are foreign to us,â he added. However, that does not  
mean the material is not U.S. as fly tests (missile test flights) had  
been performed in the El Morro area for many years and logging those  
tests had not been done for many of those years.

Testing performed on the rocket propellant by White Sands Missile  
Range Chemistry Laboratory was unable to link the recovered  
propellant to any known to have been used in the area.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.cibolabeacon.com/news/foreign-items-found-near-el-morro/ 
article_186bc6b6-728b-11e1-9648-0019bb2963f4.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
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